†Impregnochelys pachytectis Meylan and Auffenberg 1986 (turtle)
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Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Alternative combination: Impregnochelys pachytestis
Full reference: P. Meylan and W. Auffenberg. 1986. New land tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from the Miocene of Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86:279-307
Belongs to Impregnochelys according to G. L. Georgalis et al. 2021
See also Meylan and Auffenberg 1986 and Vlachos and Rabi 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BMNH R 5708, a partial shell (nearly complete plastron). Its type locality is Rusinga Island, which is in a Burdigalian terrestrial horizon in Kenya.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore
Distribution: found only at Rusinga Island
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